This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 300 fifth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

podcast. I'm gearing up to do another outlining your novel webinar tomorrow

Tuesday August 27th at 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

These are special live events hosted by Writers Digest University,

in which I talk about how you can choose the right type of outline for you, how to brainstorm plot ideas,

discover your characters, organize your scenes, format your finished outline,

and of course how to put your outline to use once you've written it.

Participants are guaranteed a critique by me of at least a portion of their

outlines. This is a great opportunity since these webinars are the only time I'm able to offer critiques or feedback on actual outlines.

You can find more info by clicking a link at the top of my home page at helping writers become authors.com

and if you're not able to join us live you can still access the on-demand

version of the webinar and the offer for the critique. Hope to see you there. The latest post in the video

series on my blog is How to Make Readers Happy by giving them exactly what

they don't want. It shows you how to make readers happy by taking

advantage of their conflicting desires for the fate of your characters.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled

Protagivist and Main Character. Same person? The answer may transform your story.

Writers tend to use the terms for protagonist and main character interchangeably.

In fact, if asked to define one of these terms, we would probably come right back with the other term as our quickest explanation.

And why not? Both describe a story's central character, right? Not necessarily.

This argument doesn't even matter most of the time because in the vast majority of stories, the protagonist well be the main character.

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